hi,our day begins at 4.45 when oh gets up for work she lets dogs out and gets ready to leave at 5.30,i usually get up at 8.30 let dogs out again some of the dogs prefer being outside all day(the youngest ones) then i have my cup of tea (i must have tea),pigs get buckets of veg for breakfast,then we open the hens(our hens are in seperate pens,pairs trio's) easy at the moment now the ground is solid last month and in december it was very hard work when the ground was a bog.after this i do whatever oh left for me to do.hanging out washing, repairing washing machine(again)in the afternoon when oh gets home (she works monday to friday) we do the main feed,ducks and geese together,then the hens then the pigs then oh feeds rabbits and guinea pigs then we feed the dogs then last but not least us,weekends are kept for mucking out  we use a round bale of straw every time, but we intend to downsize this year because i'm tired of buying new range rovers for the poor farmers,this year we hope to start looking for something in france again, if we can find someone to take this place of our hands.we will be taking our kune kune pigs, black orpingtons,japanese and pekin hens with us along with the call ducks,tufted,magpie,pekin,ducks.tomorrow of to inverness to pick up 2 ton of carrots hope weather not to bad 160ml round trip.

hi,2 ton of organic carrots home,god bless the supermarkets if it wasn't for them rejecting the carrots for being to small or to big i have to pay a lot more for them, it is the same for potatoes i only pay £20 per ton,so my pigs get lots of extra food and we get free corrots for mince and stew(carrots and potatoes are cleaned processed and then rejected).we are looking for a place in the poitou-charentes we both like the languedoc but oh cannot take the summer heat so the poitou is the best option and we have some friends there as well.if it dries up tomorrow it is mucking out day (great).

hi,so far this year we have been lucky (no snow) but we have had rain oh we have had RAIN,last two weeks it has been frozen so not to bad,last year at this time we had 30cm of snow in the field and we are right on the coast  (my fences are on the shoreline).one of our reasons for moving to france is the weather we know the winters can be bad but they are short and the summers are long(and the wine is good) unlike my french but i'm working on it.